Criminals Quotes - Page 8

• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Literature, Politics

  Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

  John Turturro

  Two, Would Be, Bakeries

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• I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

  John Wilkes Booth

  Soul, Dies

  John Wilkes Booth (2000). “Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

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• Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

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• A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Soul, Poverty, Poor

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• Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Hands, Law

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

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• A society gets the criminals it deserves.

  Val McDermid

  Deserve

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• Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Worry, Firsts

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• Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Home, Evil, Percent

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• Criminals have means motive and opportunity – Heros do too

  Chris Penn

  Hero, Mean, Opportunity

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• Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

  James Cook

  Mother, Impossible, Good Mother

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• We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, People, Political

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow

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• When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Nsa, Names

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Facts, Crime

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

  Ronald Biggs

  Years, Practice, Gave Up

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

  Michael Badnarik

  Lines, Firsts, Victim

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• Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

  Jeff Miller

  Attention, Paid, Firearms

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• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  Bill Bryson

  Government, Years, America

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• Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Wise, Humble, Politics

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  Harold Pinter

  War, Thinking, Literature

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Funny, Humor, Use

  "Fictional chracter: Achille Weber". "Idiot's Delight", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

  Aldrich Ames

  Men, Might, Bags

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• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Law, Crime

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